There are certainly grave concerns about oversight, abuse, privacy, etc, here. However, I find it interesting that the FBI had to have the card reprogrammed to conduct their surveillance. Similar to Google and others revealing government requests for data, these incidents imply that the government at least doesn't quite have complete unfettered access to all of our online communications, as I often hear some claiming (NSA super data center!!). Not that it's still not prudent to assume otherwise and work towards greater privacy and all that. But sometimes I find it a useful perspective to keep in mind even as we seem to slide further toward such a state.